Privacy from third party sites

[LianaThorne]

Natural person who can be id by an online identifier

Tell me how I id your natural person with in game char

Just off the top of my head:

- If your username on the forum matches any other usernames you have online, you can easily find someone's social media or other personal links via Google.
- If someone uses their character name on any other roleplaying websites that have links to social media, you can find their personal information easily.

Speaking as someone who had someone go out of their way to stalk me that way.

[Evergrey]

Week 1 clears are typically reserved for hardcore statics (i.e. those that hit the tier daily for hours on end until it's finished so it's very time demanding). The lead will typically want to see proof that you can parse extremely high, what you've cleared (typically last expac's savage + the newest ultimate to show you're up to date and are reliable to clear with) and probably go through some form of tryouts. The point for them is to clear as quick as possible so people who make lots of mistakes/can't learn quickly should avoid it.

The majority of statics though outside of hardcore level won't care about your logs as they just want to clear ultimately and aren't too bothered about how long it takes. They most likely won't be as efficient as a hardcore static but it's either clearing with that or going into PF on your own to clear in order to get your foot in the door with Week 1 people.

Mm.. I simply asked since when I did sP1-5 I did the first 3 through PF, no biggie, and the Static I joined after was from FC members and weren't really hardcore so thought it'd be interesting to see what the "norm" for joining statics with complete strangers might look like.

[LianaThorne]

Mm.. I simply asked since when I did sP1-5 I did the first 3 through PF, no biggie, and the Static I joined after was from FC members and weren't really hardcore so thought it'd be interesting to see what the "norm" for joining statics with complete strangers might look like.

Oh yeah the standard is just:
- Look on Party Finder for anyone recruiting for a class you'd be open to playing/ put up your own ad
- Reach out to person/respond to person
- Go through tryouts (lead might not care about this, depends)
- Join Discord
- Attend raid nights
- Profit

[CaedemSanguis]

We have only one day until maintenance for a new expansion and I have the feeling you are one of the people just looking for more material for cherry picking and crapping on others anyway. I have better things to do with my time today, like learning BLU spells or doing a hunt train. You have plenty of urls to look it up, aside from, idk, google or duckduckgo, if you would really want to know, you can figure it out.

Sure, have fun

[CaedemSanguis]

Just off the top of my head:

- If your username on the forum matches any other usernames you have online, you can easily find someone's social media or other personal links via Google.
- If someone uses their character name on any other roleplaying websites that have links to social media, you can find their personal information easily.

Speaking as someone who had someone go out of their way to stalk me that way.

In that case you need to delete FF14 ?

You char name on FF14 is the same name on fflog

[Nyxs]

In that case you need to delete FF14 ?

You char name on FF14 is the same name on fflog

Or dont be psychos? Not that hard. But people like you are why we are going to be able to hide our lodestones so we dont get stalked.

[ZephyrMenodora]

I think this always should have been opt-in. Don't parses violate the TOS to begin with in general? Why are all our characters funneled into such websites?

Now, behind the scenes, as someone who was an officer in a very high-end raid guild in the past, I can understand the use of such tools. It saves a lot of time having some info about applicants. A bad addition to a raid team can be disruptive and it can also cause a lot of drama trying to eventually remove them. Showing your credentials to be part of an exclusive team, IMO, is fine. If I wanted to raid I'd open my logs back up for any applications.

But for most of us with no interest in raids, recent events showed us that this info is just used to harass others in scenerios where the data is not even relevant.

[AmiableApkallu]

Hey I thought I would let people know that to have your data hidden on FFlogs and tomestone.gg you can go into your profile on the lodestone and put in the description of your profile:

fflogs-hidden
tomestone-hidden

Next time you are refreshed on your profile on these websites your information will be hidden. Thought I would let people know.
I don't hate these websites existing, I do however hate that they are not opt-in, If people want to parse thats fine but I value privacy and prefer to keep that between me and my static.

It's perhaps worth noting that a lot of the information shown on tomestone.gg is available from your Lodestone profile and public achievements.

(Things I learn: The Lodestone's display for an achievement shows only a date, but the underlying code for the page contains a precise timestamp.)

It looks to me like only the "Activity" tab actually makes use of logs/parses.

[CaedemSanguis]

Or dont be psychos? Not that hard. But people like you are why we are going to be able to hide our lodestones so we dont get stalked.

If you dont apply to my static I will not check your logs, your paranoid

[ZephyrMenodora]

If you dont apply to my static I will not check your logs, your paranoid

Just because you wouldn't doesn't mean other's wouldn't. We just had a situation in the Healer strike thread where someone made a spreadsheet of all the posters in that thread using those websites and then posted it on twitter and reddit.